Following their prosecution for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” against the Russian Orthodox Church, Russian punk group Pussy Riot has been dispatched to correctional colony IK 14. As it happens, the colony is particularly religious. Coincidence? Judith Pallot is skeptical.
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Fun Fact: apparently this is grounds for a lawsuit.
A murder-for-hire trial, a literary judge, and an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest. Welcome to Key West jurisprudence, everybody!
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
